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Everybody's Business. Today's pro golfer is part showman, part TV personality, part salesman, a walking Chamber of Commerce for the fastest-growing sport in the U.S. Baseball and football may still be the great spectator sports, but athletes of all ages can-and do-play golf. This year, according to the National Golf Foundation, 6,000,000 Americans will take club in hand to play more than 90 million rounds of golf on 6,718 U.S. golf courses, most of them public courses or semiprivate clubs that charge a daily fee. The rich...
Died. John Ireland. 82, gentle, white-haired English composer of songs, chamber, piano and organ music, anthems and orchestral pieces, who put poems to music (his most popular: from Masefield's Sea-Fever) but shied away from longer works because "you must have a very good opinion of yourself to write a symphony"; after a long illness; in Washington, Sussex, England...
...Gangrene & Oxygen. Still the four doctors on the case tried to think of something else to do for the stricken farmer. One of them remembered having read last year in the professional journal Surgery about patients infected with gas-gangrene bacilli; oxygen treatment in a compression chamber had apparently helped to bring about surprising cures...
First problem was to find a compression chamber (usually used for slow decompression of divers and tunnel workers to guard against "the bends"). A construction company in McCook, 30 miles away, agreed to send in one of the 6-ft. by 16-ft., four-ton monsters by trailer truck. It was 1 a.m., 38 hours after his admission, when Douma was carried into the chamber after it was finally set up in a lot at the rear of the hospital. Two doctors fitted him with a special oxygen mask, and stayed with him inside the steel chamber...
Death for Half. Exactly why the compression chamber treatment worked so well, Farmer Douma's doctors are not sure. They know that the penicillin they administered kills tetanus bacilli; oxygen presumably helps to kill them faster. Oxygen's effect on poisons manufactured by the bacilli is not yet known, so the Douma case alone proves little. But one of the doctors remarked: "It's amazing that such a relatively simple and obvious treatment, based on an old but neglected principle, should have to wait until 1962 to be tested." Equally amazing is the fact that although lockjaw...